up and that there were no casualties.) One of Groves' dssistan ts, who was told to insu re the security of the test, re- marked that it was like keeping the Mississippi River a secret. Of course, after the bomb was exploded over Hiroshima there were no secrets. To ph)lsicists of my generation, com- ing into physics just after the war, the use of the bomb on two Japanese cities seemed unnecessary. Ita ppeared to us that the Japanese had already lost the war. The lTIoral issues looked to us, in hindsight, so clear. But we were not involved, and couldn't really put our- sel ves in the place of the people who were. I asked Rabi if he could rem em- btr how things had appeared to him at that time. I-fe said that before the Ger- rnans surrendered American physicists \vho were wor king on the bomb were desperately concerned that the Ger- mans might make the bomb before the United States did. They knew exactly who the German nuclear physicists were, but they had no way of knowing how far the Germans had gone. Then, late in the war, they found out that the Germans had never really gone any- where. Once American scientists had produced the bomb, it was more or less taken out of their hands. No scientist was asked to ad vise the military on what to do with the bomb. On one occasion, after the war, Oppenheimer, accompanied by Under-Secretary of S(ate Dean Acheson, went to see Presi- dent Truman. He expressed some re- grets to Truman about having made the bomb. "Mr. President, I have blood on my hands," he said. Later, Truman said to Acheson, "Don't you bring that fello\\' around again. After all, all he did was make the bomb. I'm the guy who fired 1t off." How- ever, within the Los Alamos com- munity, before Hiroshima, there was an enormous amount of anguished dis- cussion, especially about the possibility of using the atomic bomb in some sort of non-lethal demonstration in the presence of the Japanese. Rabi did not see at that time how the bomb could be used in a demonstration. "Who would they send and what would he report r You would have to tell him what instruments to bnng, and where to stand, and what to measure. Other- wise, it would look like a lot of pyro- technics. It would take someone who understood the theory to realize what ' he was seeing. It was not a trivial point. "'({ ou would have to have built a model town to make a realistic demonstration. I t would require a level of communica- tion between us and the Japanese which was inconceivable in wartime, and while they argued for weeks, or maybe " c Porcelain Enchaniments MANY MOONS AGO . . . the fire of Chato wove words of Jove and courage in the sky . Today t the Artists of CY8tS 'cr ate timeless enchantm,ent ,::::... with porcelains that tlrø:; th imagInation..,... .:, ':::, CybtS News ø Phoentx,' for on Brqcp p,o é r:' I 1 '?( '-'- ,- 0": "-:oï, :::::. 00)" %-- '1 y , .":.? t -4 , l' .. , '+ t ': -- ' ' \; , '::; -- ;; -::: -6 i\' ::i: ". .< '" :::: ....... .. .c,. '::::. O'v ..::- .....- -t. :. -v.:..- '- . , ,,* f 61 : . '): % y *"" . ,\,.. ,',: I \ Þ, :-- - -' <<: . :. c_ f", '&o .- ' . #- <' ,'- \ ø-' ':_ {w. ..-:: .<:<; .... ":':: "' :' " o CYB S 1974 Chato One of an Issue of 500 from The North Amertcan IndIan CollectIon" . Y , ;. ". ... 4 -' : -.....t;_ "* '--' ..' t ::: :, "'øtr__ -c:: _, , <' ....... :- '::: ..... :.:. 3%::- ;;." tß ,: : Ñ: ...... .:,:: ,,-\ \ ' ," =-:0.::- '-1 "" , ,- '- ,, ",\ , , t. >' -, 1 -- #' - y, . ^! '. :>\ " -< ..;=.. ., ' , "y- 04 "- ñ' -- * ..Y 0:,," i:'" =:.0:' - f- Y... -t:--:-- , l '>< --::- ..::..' 4f. - "J::> " .. :...t< ..:.:,'.:. ',' ' ""* ' '-?'- << " '::' ' / " , . ' \. )$0 .. '. -.... .' w;...,. ....: "'(>1' :\ ;' %:: " w $''\'i You are invited to attend a specIal exhibIt of CYBIS Porcelam Sculptures, November 12 thru 14, at Wakefield-Scearce Galleries, Shelbyvi/le, Kentucky 40065 . . . or tel (502) 633-4382.